An Eskimo Winter
The arctic hare, the ptarmigan, the seal. Below, caribou, feeding. Above them a kayak. In borders, fish and seal spears, bows and arrows, skinning knives.
Footnotes:
[1] In this connection Grinnell’s recent story of the Cheyennes, “Where Buffalo Ran” should not be overlooked. Ed.
[2] Meaning: “the star who smoked my pipe.”
[3] In 1832 a post was founded near the present site of Fort Benton, Montana, known as Fort Mackenzie. In 1833 it was visited by the famous German traveler, Maximilian, Prince of Wied, accompanied by the artist, Charles Bodmer. Maximilian gives us an interesting and detailed account of his travels in the Missouri country and is the first to give us good information as to the culture of the Blackfoot. See his Travels in the Interior of North America, translated by H. E. Lloyd, Cleveland, 1906.
[4] Manuscript contributed by Mr. Stewart Culin.
[5] I am under the impression that the ceremonies Dr. Washington Matthews observed several years ago at Fort Defiance were addressed to the Yès of the Half-red-house, but the motive in those ceremonies and in these of the Yès of the Half-white-house is the same, and the rites and songs very similar.
[6] It was this biography, published originally in “The Scientific Monthly” (Nov. 1919) and now revised, which suggested to us the comprehensive biographic plan of this book. Ed.
[7] Frank Hamilton Cushing. Tenatsali, one of the medicine plants, was his Zuñi name.
[8] Agave brandy.
[9] Gourd cup.
[10] Corn meal.
[11] Jamestown weed.
[12] Shawls.
[13] Twelve cents.
[14] Cooked corn meal wrapped in corn husk.
[15] Gourd bottle.
[16] At the request of the author, there has been no editing.—E. C. P.
[17] What an interesting illustration of how custom and belief may be affected by a change in material culture, caused by foreign contact!
[18] The Rev. J. Jetté notes that a peculiar fear of bears is universal among Ten’a women, concluding that the fear is due to the bear tales in which the bear is represented as peculiarly hostile to women. The view that the tale is the outcome of the fear is also tenable.
[19] The notes for this appendix have been contributed, except in a few instances, by the respective authors of the tales.
[20] In collaboration with John V. Satterlee, a Menomini.
[21] See The Owl Sacred pack of the Fox Indians. Bulletin 72, Washington, 1921.
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